'While the defence's argument of the accused committing the offence out of paternal love may be attractive at first blush, the ends cannot justify the means,' says the judge.
SINGAPORE: A man who took the rap for his daughter when she got into a traffic accident with a motorcycle was sentenced to four months' jail, fined S$500 and banned from driving for a year on Friday .
Ong's daughter, who did not have a driving licence in Singapore, made a U-turn along Tampines Avenue 2 without stopping and hit a motorcycle that had the right of way, leaving him with a fractured wrist, multiple abrasions and a broken motorcycle. The ruse was unravelled two-and-a-half years after the incident, when the lawyers wrote to the police, who reopened the case.
She said the offence went against"the very institution of justice itself" and contaminated the rule of law. "The accused indeed committed no crime. If the daughter didn't meet with an accident, he won't be here today," said Mr Dhillon. "When the accident occurred and the police arrived at the scene, David spontaneously and instinctively told the police he was the driver. As a father, all he wanted was to protect his daughter. were his noble intentions - which had criminal consequences," said Mr Dhillon.
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